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"War, Fascism, concentration camps, rubber truncheons, atomic bombs, etc., are what we daily think about, and therefore to a great extent what we write about, even when we do not name them openly. We cannot help this. When you are on a sinking ship, your thoughts will be about sinking ships." --George Orwell (1903-1950)[Thanks to Alex Constantine @ http://aconstantineblacklist.blogspot.com/]

Saturday, October 24

While You Slept: Power GOPhers Confirm Iraq War II All About Oil

That wealthy "Repubs" in the White House volunteered our sons and daughters to fetch their oil for them certainly explains why no weapons of mass destruction or links between Saddam and Al-Qaeda were ever found in Iraq.

... Get off it. All the carping, belly-aching and complaining about George Bush's incompetence in Iraq, from both the Left and now the Right, is just dead wrong.

On the third anniversary of the tanks rolling over Iraq's border, most of the 59 million Homer Simpsons who voted for Bush are beginning to doubt if his mission was accomplished.

But don't kid yourself -- Bush and his co-conspirator, Dick Cheney, accomplished exactly what they set out to do. In case you've forgotten what their real mission was, let me remind you of White House spokesman Ari Fleisher's original announcement, three years ago, launching of what he called,

"Operation

Iraqi

Liberation."

O.I.L. How droll of them, how cute. Then, Karl Rove made the giggling boys in the White House change it to "OIF" -- Operation Iraqi Freedom. But the 101st Airborne wasn't sent to Basra to get its hands on Iraq's OIF...(Read full article here.)

In 2007, Sonoma State University's Project Censored, the Dept of Sociology's project to document underreported US media stories, enshrined Palast's effort at #17 on its annual Top 25 List of stories of public significance marginalized by the US media. In the telling at PC, US oil giants were complicit with Middle Eastern OPEC countries to avoid privatizing Iraqi oil and the ensuing competition that would have not have permitted artificially high oil prices for continued profits for the global oil cartel.

Two to three years after Palast's Pulitizer-denied story, the blumbling journalists over at MSNBC acted surprised when Senator John McCain, on his 2008 campaign trail told a little---GOSH!--truth about US motives in Iraq.

Chris Mathews completes MSNBC's cub reporter coup by including a passage of former Federal Reserve guru Allan Greenspan's recently published memoirs that corroborates McCain's very public revelation.

Where's a Democrat-controlled Congress when you really need corrective political leadership with subpoena power? The overweening arrogance and total lack of unconcern for congressional oversight are sure clues there's no "democracy" left and we're at the mercy of America's Approaching Winter of the Greedy Wolves.